Panzooryktologia. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A compleat history of animals and minerals,: containing the summe of all authors, both ancient and modern, Galenicall and chymicall, touching animals, viz. beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and man, as to their place, meat, name, temperature, vertues, use in meat and medicine, description, kinds, generation, sympathie, antipathie, diseases, cures, hurts, and remedies &c. With the anatomy of man, his diseases, with their definitions, causes, signes, cures, remedies: and use of the London dispensatory, with the doses and formes of all kinds of remedies: as also a history of minerals, viz. earths, mettals, semimettals, their naturall and artificiall excrements, salts, sulphurs, and stones, with their place, matter, names, kinds, temperature, vertues, use, choice, dose, danger, and antidotes. Also an [brace] introduction to zoography and mineralogy. Index of Latine names, with their English names. Universall index of the use and vertues. / By Robert Lovell. St. C.C. Oxon. philotheologiatronomos.

HEMIMETALLOLOGIA. Of Semi-mettals.

A.

Antimonie. Antimonium.

• P. In Germany, Hungary, and Transilvania. &c.
• M. Of minerall sulphur partly pure, partly combustible, much ☿ crude & litle sait
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Heb. Zadadah. Arab. Aitmad. Stibium. Chym. ♁.

ANtimonie. Card. T. its cold 3^o and aqueous astringent and dry∣ing. Schrod. it obstructeth the passages of the body being crude, wasts excrescencies of the flesh, and cicatrizeth. V. it cleanseth the ulcers and filth of the eyes, and is therefore much used in collyries: some also give it in the fitt, against the falling sicknesse. Querc. in Tet. there are various, innumerable and excellent properties herein, sc. to prepare, purge, and cause vomiting, &c. inso∣much that it cannot have its due commendation. Hereof is made the vitrum or glasse of antimonie, which by vomit and purgation bring∣eth forth thick viscid and superfluous humours, out of the stomach and parts nigh thereunto. It also resisteth the poyson and infection of the plague: especially if taken with vineger, it hereby causing sweat: furthermore it is usefull in the dropsie, putrid and malignant feavers, &c. D. it's given from. g. 2. to 4. in infusion from 3. to 6. as afterwards, sc. the white, so the Hyacinthine: the pouder to g. 8. being infused in wine, and taken with the juice of marygolds, to cause sweat, and to preserve from the plague. The black of S. Closse serveth for the pu∣rification of mettals. The Regulinum may be given in a greater quantity than the former. That of the Regulus causeth sweat, and is given from gr. 3. to 6. P. de Spin. The vitrum or glasse of anti∣monie corrected, is given from g. 2. to 6. The purging from 3 to 5. of which are made pils against agues: So Hart. in Crol. The purging spirit of Vitriol. D. is from 6 drops to 10. The common crocus me∣tallorum is used in paines of the head, caused by the foulenesse of the stomach (from which they often arise.) in the falling sicknesse, pleu∣risie,

hypochondriacall melancholy, feavers, both continuall, especially the hungarick, and intermitting, as also against the plague, coagu∣lation of blood, and to preserve from the gout: in all which being given in some convenient water, it purgeth by vomit, and sometimes by stoole: the inward D. is from gr. 3. to x. yet 6 are seldome to be exceeded: it also is sometimes used in clisters, against the collick drach. sem. or drach. 1. being boiled in some convenient water or wine, and the colature mixed with broth or the decoction of emollient sim∣ples; and so used it is a most excellent remedie for the same. The same vertues also hath that of Rula••dus. Greg. Horst. The Crocus Regulatus worketh lesse upwards, and more downwards: the D. is gr. x. with raisins. The common Antimonium diaphoreticum, or diaphore∣tick antimonie, resisteth corruption, cleanseth the bloud, and removeth all obstructions though inveterate, both of the liver, spleen, mesen∣terie, and of the other inward parts, ••••t helpeth the retention of the menses, and green sicknesse or cachexi•• in maides. it cureth the dropsie, hypochondriacall melancholy, french pocks, itch, and ulcers inward and outward. it is excellent good in malignant feavers, the small pocks, and breakings out. it breaketh inward impostumes, yet it wor∣keth not suddainly; but by degrees: the D. is from g. x. to 25. Basil. the Flowers of fixed Antimonie, help inward impostumes, and the french disease., g. 15. being given in the spirit of pockwood, foure or five times in a day. The tartarised F.F. is given from g. 5. to 10. Tentzel. the martiall Regulus, worketh gently both upwards and downwards, the D. is gr. 2. or 3. The antimoniale ceruse taken inwardly is very good to cure old ulcers, scabs, and troublesome breakings forth, being ta∣ken every day, for 3. 4. or more weeks together; but it worketh vari∣ously, for in some for the 2 or 3 first dayes, it causeth a certaine nauseousnesse, with a frequent spitting, and afterwards worketh in sensibly: in others it gently looseneth the body; in some it causeth sweating, and in diverse it worketh altogether insensibly, and not manifestly, till at last: outwardy it drieth, bindeth, moderately clean∣seth and openeth: the D. inwardly is from scrup sem. to drach. scm. four or five houres before dinner. The diaphoretick ceruse of antimonie produceth the same effects, yet without nauseating, and more effectu∣ally in the same q. See Sala's Anat. Ant. The Solar ceruse thereof, provoketh sweat. The red fixed antimonie, purgeth equally, both up∣wards, and downwards, and that not so much by its own nature, as the bilious humour remaining about the stomach, also in some it worketh as a diaphoretick: the D. is from g. 2. to 4. and more. That of Basil is very good to resolve congealed bloud, break apostumes,

and cure the french pocks. The diaphoretick precipitate of antimonie, D. is given from g. 4. to 12. so Sala. The compounded flowers cause vomiting; but more gently than the simple: the D. is from g. 4. to 6. Horst. Epist. they cure quartane agues and those that are mad, or me∣lancholick. Two gr. hereof being mixed with 12 of mercurius dulcis, purge serous and bilious humours, scarce causing vomiting. The flowers of the Regulus being impregnate by the spirit of Mars and Venus, do gently purge and cure all intermitting agues: the D. is a few gr. So Querc. in Tetr. Basil. the Liquor hereof is excellent in wounds. Note, in generall, the flowers of antimonie doe cause violently to vomit, yet neverthelesse some give 2. 3. or 4. g. there∣of. The flowers of antimonie corrected, cure diseases arising from black choller, purging forth coplously, both upwards and downwards, what is hurtfull: the D. is from g. 5. to 10. S. Closs. the fixed flowers, purge more gently, and provoke much sweating: the D. is gr. 8. to scrup. sem. The powder diaphoretick made of the cinnabaris antimonii, is very good in the epilepsie. The vineger of antimonie, serveth to ex∣tract the tincture thereof, it powerfully cooleth the bloud, especially in the malignant and hungarick feaver, being mixed with lapis pru∣vellae and some convenient distilled water: it cureth the inflamma∣tion caused by gunpowder, being mixed with saccharum Saturni. Po∣ter. The oile, is a great dissolver. Begu. the Saccharate oile, cureth diseases both inward and outward, of which may be made pils, against a quartain ague: That of Senn. gently purgeth and helpeth the dropsie: the D. is g. 2. to 6. The white liquor of that of Querc. helpeth cancrous ulcers, and outward diseases: the yellow purgeth up∣wards and downwards: the reddish, being rectified by 2 or 3 cohoba∣tions and washed in some cordiall water, is most excellent, to cure the leprosie, morphew, apoplexie, epilepsie, and plague, being given in some appropriate water. Querc. in Tetr. the D. is from g. 3. to 6. of that of Faus. g. 8. to scrup. sem. in fluid diseases: of that of Basil in curr. triumph. a few drops, a∣gainst the falling sicknesse. Sala. the oile, or honied liquor of antimo∣nie, is corrosive and penetrating, and very mundifying, especially in ulcers, consuming excrescencies, &c. it's also very good against gan∣greens, and may be used alone, or mixed with rosate honey, unguents, powders, or waters, &c. it may be used in stead of the philosophick vineger, in the preparation of the tincture of antimonie, called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Kesl. The Magisterie of antimonie purgeth kindly by vomit: the D. is g. 3. The glaciale oile of antimonie or butter thereof, is a most excellent and precious remedie, for the cure of many and great

griefes: as tertian, quotidian, and chiefely quartaine agues: for in many it gently causeth vomit, in others it purgeth, and is of that strength, that it quite eradicateth, and expels the seminaries of the evil. Hart. in Crol. Senn. Inst. The chrystaline oile of the flowers, is the same almost with the former: and serveth for the solution of Sol, and is the basis of the purging precipitate, as also of the vomito∣rie: the D. is g. 1. to 4. Basil, The compounded oile for wounds doth mightily mundifie the same, though old. The balsame of antimonie, is of great vertue in old ulcers. The vulnerarie balsame of Basil, is excellent in inveterate wounds. The spirit of the Regulus, is good in all intermitting fevers, and quartane agues, it cleanseth the bloud as a diaphoretick, consumeth the stone of the reines and bladder, discusseth the matter of the gout, and appeaseth the paine being out∣wardly applied: the D. is g. 3. to 5. The antepileptick water of Quercetane, of crocus metallorum is most excellent in curing the falling sicknesse. The sulphureous water of Stibium, or Clyssus, doth attenu∣ate the thick, tartareous and mucilaginous matter lying in any part of the body; and expelleth the same by convenient emunctories, sc. by the belly, urine, sweat, and spittle: therefore it's a very good reme∣die in the obstruction of the liver, spleen, mesenterie, and womb, in the hypocondriack melancholy, and chollick, &c. especially if acua∣ted with the crystals of Mars. it's to be mixed with spring water or some other convenient liquor, to a pleasant sharpnesse, and so drunk as often as one listeth. The tartareous water thereof is also good in obstructions, but it chiefly expelleth by sweat, matter lying in the habit of the body. S. Closs. The compounded spirit of antimonie serveth to fix Mercurie & Cinnabar. The liquor or balsame of the drosse of the Regulus is of excellent use in chirurgy, especially in fistula's and foetid ulcers. The liquor of the salt of the glasse of antimonie, being taken inwardly doth effectually stay defluxions of the gout, and pa∣roxismes: outwardly, it keepeth wounds and fistula's from putrefaction, and cureth the same; yet without mordacitie: the D. is scrup. sem. or scrup. 1. Hart. in pract. Kesl. The sulphur of crude antimonie serveth to draw forth a tincture, and purgeth upwards and down∣wards: the D. is g. 2. to 5. That of Begu. and Querc. is a more safe vomit, than crocus metallorum: and of the same D. The nix diapho∣retica S. Closs. is very good to cause sweat, and killeth wormes. The sulphur of antimonie calcined, serveth to purge, the D. is g. 4. to 8. The sulphur auratum, causeth vomit, and sometimes purgeth: the D. is g. 6. Hart. in Crol. in pract. Agric. The panacaea of the sulphur of antimonie, is like a panacaea, having a diaphoretick facultie, and

cleansing the blood; therefore it may serve in all diseases, curable by sweat, especially the french pocks, and foulenesse of the skinne, the D. is gr. x. to 20. and is often to be repeated in diseases, especially in the epidemick, and malignant. Fab. Monsp. The tincture of crude antimonie, is an excellent balsame for to cure wounds inward or out∣ward: it causeth sweat, and sometimes vomit, and purgation: it cureth the symptomes of the leprosie. Basil. the balsame of life, is of great vertue, it cleanseth the bloud, cureth the morphew and scab, and ex∣hilerateth the spirits. The tincture of the glasse of antimonie, the bezoartick thence, the Magisterie of Sala, and Basils oile of the glasse thereof, helpeth all old obstructions of the liver, spleen, lungs, &c. also against the retention of the menses, green sicknesse, black jaun∣dise, dropsie, phthisick, asthma, pleurisie. cachexie, hypochondriack me∣lancholy, inward and outward ulcers, all sorts of scabs and itch, french pocks, and continuall, putrid, and pestilentiall feavers, &c. & pocks and measles: it expelleth what is hurtfull, by sweat, urine, and spittle, the use thereof being continued. So Tentzel. the D. of the tincture is g 3. to 9. in malmesey or some other liquour: of the bezoartick from 4. to 12. &c. The tincture of the solar glasse of antimonie, causeth sweat, with∣out vomiting or nauseousnesse, and cleanseth the bloud from all impu∣rities, and tartareous seculencies. it coagulates the microcosmick salt, which being dissolved, causeth the dropsie, and purgeth noxious phlegme out of the body: it cureth the gout, especially if taken with the arcanum of fearne. it easeth the paine of the joints caused by the french disease, and the disease it selfe, with convenient decoctions. it cureth ulcers, and is very good in the pestilence and other epide∣mick diseases: the D. is drach. 2. 3. or more. That of Basil, is an ex∣cellent diaphoretick, and purgeth well with the extract of rheubarb: so Hartm. Tentzel. Bicker: The tincture of crocus metallorum, pur∣geth, and vehemently moveth sweat: the D. is g. 6. to 12. of the febrifuge and antiphleuritick oile of antimonie of S. Closs. gr. 4. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the regulus of mars or ♀, or antidotos pan∣tagogos, purgeth the bloud, helpeth the appetite, strengthneth the bowels, cureth the cachexie, hypochondriack melancholy, jaundise, and dropsie, and that by gentle purgation: the D. is a few drops. 2 or. 3. &c. of the precipitate gr. 3. or 4. The balsame of the Regulus, and tincture thence, is a very excellent remedie in the diseases of the lungs; as the ph••hisick, asthma, and cough being often taken: the D. is g. 3. or 4. Kesl. The tincture of antimonie calcined with the lapis pru∣nellae purgeth downwards, and by sweat: the. D. is g. 2. 3. 4. &c. of the earth thereof remaining in the extraction with distilled viniger, if

dulcorated; g. 8. or 10. and stoppeth all fluxes of the belly. Basil. in curr. triumph. Baco de antimon. The tincture of red fixed antimonie, is of excellent vertue in dissolving bloud, breaking apostumes, and cu∣ring the french pocks, &c. the D. is g. 3. or 4. Bacon extols it for a pa∣nacaea. Paracels. in chirurg. mag. Basil. in curr. triumph. Hartm. in disp. Chym. Querc. Poter. Sala. The tincture of the flowers of antimonie, or Lilium Paracelsi, is a medicine restorative to the whole body, acting only by the correction of humours: it cleanseth the body of man more than any arcana: it's also usefull in obstructions of the liver, dropsie, morphew, leprosie, and in diseases of the spleen, as the scur∣vey, &c. it provoketh the termes, and if we may believe Basil, it gently purgeth downwards, with the extract of rheubarb and tincture of corall: the D. is g. 3. to 8. Basil's arcanum antimonii, strengthneth the stomach, consuming hurtfull humours, it causeth appetite, hel∣peth hypochondriack melancholy, suffocation of the womb, and col∣lick, &c. the D. is g. 1. or 2. The Solar Elixir of antimonie, or electrum & lili Parac. is an excellent remedie in the black jaundise, gout, and dropsie: the D. is the q. of a coriander seed in syrups, twice in a day for curation, and once in a month for preservation. The tincture of Basil, purgeth gently, and cureth feavers tertian and quar∣tans. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the flowers, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Querc. is a true balsame of life, that cannot be sufficiently commended: it's given with things appropriate, in the epilepsie, a∣poplexie, palsey, pestilent diseases, leprosie, morphew; and to cleanse the whole bloud: the D. is a few drops. Querc. in Tetr. The tin∣cture of the vitriolated flowers, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is a true antidote against all sorts of feavers, even the pestilent: the D. is 4 or 5 drops in some convenient liquour. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the flowers of the Regulus, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. hel∣peth the whole masse of blood, the morphew, leprosie, kings evill, and french pocks, it restoreth and increaseth the naturall heat, consu∣meth the viscidities of the stomach, and cleanseth the body from all excrements, it's a very good medicine against the chollick, and suf∣focation of the matrix. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the precipi∣tated flowers of the regulus of mars, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. it's of most admirable vertues, and may be compared to the aurum po∣tabile it selfe. it openeth and cureth all inward impostumes, it dissol∣veth congealed bloud, and purifieth that which is corrupted, it's good against the leprosie, schrophula's, the french pocks, plague, and many other diseases; the D. is from 6 drops to 10. Gluckr. The tincture of the saccharate oile, purgeth downwards, the D. is g. 3. Hartm.

in pract. The tincture of the sulphur of antimonie is a great strength∣ner, provoketh sweat, and preserveth from the gout, the D. is g. 1. to 4. it also cures the spasme. The tincture of the aurate sulphur pro∣voketh sweat, and purgeth chiefely by the belly, without trouble, yet not the first, but 3d day. the D. is g. 4. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the sulphur, of the Joviale Regulus, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is of equall vertue with balsame in curing all affections of the lungs, it helpeth the phthisick, difficulty of breathing, asthma, pleuresie, and peripneumonie, &c. to be short, it cureth very many dangerous diseases: the D. is g. 3. to 6 or more. Querc. in Tetr. The tincture of the Mercurie of antimonie with sol, antidotus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Querc. is extraordinarie good against the plague, leprosie, morphew, &c. the D. is 3. 4. or 5 drops, in treacle water. Basil. in C. triumph. The magisteriate tincture, hath the vertues of ☉ Basil. Poter. in Pharmac. The infusion of crude antimonie purgeth both upwards and down∣wards. Hartm. in Croll. The infusion of the glasse of antimonie, is em∣etick with good effect, especially in those diseases, that are cured by vomiting, as coughs, pleuresies, quinsies, want of appetite, belchings, and many other of the first region: the D. is scrup. 1. to scrup. v. some also take a piece of the vitrum q. drach. ij. to unc. sem. without pou∣dering, and steep it in some beer or wine certaine houres, according as they desire it more or lesse strong and so straine, and use it▪ it is also to be admired, in the infusion thereof, that the emetick vertue is not exhausted, but it may be infused almost in infinitum, and that scarce any of the strength, or very little thereof will be lost: as also, that the same, if it be at all weakened; by new fusion doth recover its former vertue. The infusion of crocus metallorum, or aqua bene∣dicta. Querc. is given to unc sem. or more, and is thus made. ♃. croc. metal. Ungar. unc. 1. Aq. card. b. lib. ij. vel. 3. cinam. unc. sem. steep it two or three daies, then strain it, and keep it for use. That of Rulan∣dus is given from unc sem. to unc. ij. or use this, Take of crocus me∣tallorum, (either the common, or that of Hartm.) from gr. 3. to x. of sack, malmesey, hydromel, beere, or any other convenient liquor, from unc. sem. to ij. steep it, if necessity require boile it, and straine it through a paper: both these aq. benedictae, are usefull in the head∣ach, caused by the foulenesse of the stomach, which is often so, as also in the epilepsie, pleurisie, hypochondriack melancholy, feavers, plague gout, and coagulation of the bloud, &c. in all which they are to be given with an appropriate liquour: besides it's excellent good to give them in clysters, for the collic••••, sc. drach. sem. or drach. 1. being boiled in some convenient water or wine and the colature mixed

with broth, or the decoction of mollifying simples. Thold. in Halogr. Horst. The salt of antimonie, is equall in vertue to that of Sol, clean∣seth the bloud, purgeth the body from all excrements, cures the french pocks, gout, and feavers, breaketh apostumes, and outwardly cleanseth malignant ulcers: the D. is gr. 4. Basil. So the spirit of the crystals, and breaks the stone. Agric. The crystals open obstructions, arising from a viscous and tartareous mucilage, and purge downwards, there∣fore are of chiefe use in the hypochondriack melancholy, pleurisie, and tertian fever, &c. the D. is gr. 4. or 5. Note, antimonie is called by the Barbareans, Antistini. Alcosol Othi. enigmatically, Lupus, consu∣ming all mettals except Sol. Proteus, shewing all colours by the help of vulcaine. Radix metallorum, being their minerall or lying neere them. Saturnus philosophorum, for its devouring, and being some∣thing of his nature, and the Philosophers stone being thence made: and for the same reason it's called Magnesia Saturni. C. the best is the Hungarian and Transilvanian, having the purest sulphur, and being endowed with the minerall of Gold: and is found having more shining and long streaks, with an obscure rednesse (which sheweth its goodnesse, by reason of the abundance of brimstone) of which Paracelsus makes mention under the title of, rubens leo and Basil the monke in Curr. triumph. by the name of orientall: and this is most fit for the elaboration of medicines, it may be known also by its red line being drawn upon a sad coloured paper, smoothed with a boares tooth. Caes. waters running by antimonie, harden the nerves, contract, and fill them with phlegme. Fallop. The oile or bloud of anti∣monie is good against eating and malignant ulcers. The substance helpeth diseases of the eyes, and stoppeth bloud, issuing from the membrans of the braine, by a wound: it hath some sharp and sul∣phureous parts: it is used by women, as a fucus for the eyes, dilating them. The aether helps all externall ulcers. So Cardan. Erast. it doth also participate of quicksilver, tending upwards, working so quickly and violently, and purging forth both by vomit and stoole so many, so thick, so various, and tough humours: it serveth also to purge mettals, especially gold, it destroying the rest. Grevin. it par∣taketh of a plumbeous nature, its the matter thereof, and hath its faculties, being a forth kind of lead. It is used by b••lfou••de••s to help the sound of bells, a little thereof being added to the mettal, also it causeth it to meet sooner, Agric. being found in veines, it is a signe of silver. Plin. Stibium helps fluxes of the eyes, and exulcerations with frankincense, as also bloud flowing from the bra••ne it helps green wounds and old bitings of dogs, the powder being strewed thereon;

as also burning with fire with fat, litharge, ceruse, and wax. it is also mixed with plaisters, and collyries. Diosc. it's of the nature of burned lead. Fernel. it doth not corrode; but helps creeping ul∣cers, being used with oile of roses, myrrhe, mastick, omphacine, or meline. Fallop. it helps bleared eyes, and fluxes, and is a platyophthalmon. Aldrovand. it helps putrid ulcers, long feavers, the asthma, melan∣choly, paines of the belly, and many other dangerous diseases of the body. Note, H. it's not to be used in children, women great with child, effeminate men, as those that have a narrow breast, or vo∣mit with difficulty, and are subject to fainting. Caes. or to those that are slender or leane, or troubled with the mouth of the stomach or wringings in the belly or guts: In others, it is to be used, in disea∣ses that have their seat in the stomach, intestines, mesentery, and first passages only; its vertues not passing beyond the liver, therefore its counted excellent against the hypochondriacall melancholy, and long feavers, which arise from great obstructions, and thick and cold humours; as also against many other chronicall and dangerous di∣seases arising from phlegme, melancholy, or both mixed together, being used twice or thrice, or oftner, intermitting some dayes: after preparation of the body. As for the D. of stibium it is diverse, ac∣cording to the diversity of strength, temperaments, habit, age, diseases, and times of the yeare, therefore to those that are strong, and in inve∣terate diseases gr. 6. may be given in substance, and 3 to the weak, and 4 to those of indifferent strength, adding alwaies sugar of roses, and a little mastick, or some other thing: or it may be infused in ma∣lago wine, some water or cordiall decoction, with some thing that may take away acrimony. Fren. the purging and sweating water of antimony, almost without smell or tast, if taken to 20 drops will purge, else cause sweat. The essence is equall to aurum potabile; he D. is gr. 5. or. 6.

M.

Mercurie. Mercurius.

• P. In Spain, and Hungary, sc. the best: and other places.
• M. Of much earthy matter with water.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Arab. Zaibar. Barb. Azock. Chym. ☿.

MErcurie. Schrod. or Quicksilver. K. as the naturall and artificiall. T. Albert. is cold and moist 2^o. so Caes. V. inwardly it clean∣seth the bloud from its filth, especially the venerious, it expel∣leth wormes, and the difficult birth, &c. anointed outwardly, it helps all kinds of itch, killeth lice, and dissolveth hard tumours. being hung about the neck, it preserveth from the plague, (and as some would have it) from inchauntments and fascination: and as for its preparations, there is nothing in the shops except Antimonie, that will yeild greater variety of remedies than this: serving to purge, cause sweat, cleanse wounds, and appease acrimonie, especially in the running of the reins as appears in the forms of remedies thence made. The use of crude Mercury is both inward and outward, but oftener outwardly, seldomer inwardly, and then in pils: outwardly, in unguents, in which it sheweth not it selfe, and in plaisters for the itch, to be applied to the joints, but it's carefully and sparingly to be used: for being any where applied it causeth putrefaction by salivation, so also the precipitate. C. the best is that which lieth in mines neere gold or silver, and hath least of an ar∣senicall, antimonial, saturnine, or cadmiose commixture, and leaves no excrement in the retort, or leaves a yellow or white spot, and not dimme or black, being evaporated in a silver spoone. Mercurie precipi∣tate per se, doth strongly cause sweating, and given 6 or 7 times, doth eradicate the french disease. it cures all agues, and expels wormes: also for the most part it strongly causeth vomiting: See S••nn. Inst. Hart. in Crol. Tentz. Begu: Kest. The precipitate per silices, is of the same. D. and V. sc. from g. 4. to 6. Fixed Mercury, panacaea, doth dry up all noxious humours, and as a diaphoretick expelleth the same: the D. is scrup. sem. scrup. 1. or drach. sem. Crol. Senn. in Just. Begu. untz. The precipi∣tate by the oile of sulphur, purgeth all vitous humours, resolveth ca∣tarrhes, helpeth infirmities arising from the putrifaction of humours: and in dangerous diseases, there is scarce a more present remedie:

hence it's usefull in the dropsie, gout, french pocks, poyson, plague, feavers, malignant ulcers, and the itch: the D. is g. 3. to 8. Croll. Hartm. in Croll. Mercurius corallatus, as to the use, it's of the same with coralline. Ʋntz. The precipitate by the water of egges, cureth ulcers of the neck of the bladder, though counted almost incurable. It cureth wounds, and externall ulcers. Begu. Gluckr. Kest. The precipitate by the tincture of smiris, called the miraculous, purgeth upwards and down∣wards: the D. is gr. 3. or 4. Begu. Hartm. in pract. The common preci∣pitate purgeth both waies: the D. is g. 6. to 12. The white vomitivoca∣thartick of S. Closs. D. is given from scrup. sem. to gr. 12. with drach. ij. of confectio hamech, in the siphylis, leprosie, tinea and schrophula's; as also in the erysipelas, the venereous chiefely. The D. of the rectified precipitate, is from g. 4. to 6. So Ʋntz. Hartm. in Croll. it purgeth down∣wards, especially febrile matter, it's usefull in the plague, and epide∣micall diseases, being given in treacle before the fit. The incarnate pre∣cipitate also is given to work downwards, D. from gr. 6. to x. so the Lu∣teous. The precipitate of Senn. in Inst. D. is given from. gr. 1. to 6. Hartm. in Croll. The solar precipitate doth mightily cleanse the bloud, and the whole body from the french pocks. It's also very effectuall in the dropsie, expelling the water by urine and drying up the foun∣taine thereof. It helpeth the falling sicknesse, collick, quartain ague, & malignant and cancrous ulcers. The solar reguline or diaphorctick preci∣pitate, is most excellent in all diseases that require sweating: the D. is gr. 3 or 4. That of Hercules Bovius (as he saith) excels all other cathar∣ticks; and killeth wormes. it helpeth the french pocks, spotted feavers, plague, quartane agues, and other dangerous diseases: the D. is gr. 3 to 8. with sugar of roses, an egge, broth, or pils. Hartm. The aurum vitae, helpeth the plague, and many other diseases. That of S. Closs. pur∣geth gently, and causeth much sweat. the D. is gr. 8. or 12. That of Senn. in Inst. Hartm. in pract. purgeth gently by stoole, without vomiting, ex∣cept the stomach be very foule. it's a great arcanum in the dropsie, french pocks, all affections of the skinne and defluxions; also when the body is full of pituitous diseases, and humiditie. the D. is g. 3. to 8. with a little turpentine or some extract. Hartm. in Croll. The virid or venereous precipitate, is specificall in the virulent gonorrhoea, which if excessive it removeth, and promoveth if insufficient: there∣fore its use is to be continued every day untill the flux be quite stop∣ped: the D. is g. 2. to 8. The reguline sublimate serveth to the pre∣paration of Mercurius dulcis: and other remedies made by it selfe. The common Mercurius dulcis, draco mitigatus, doth gently purge forth all noxious humours without trouble, insomuch that it may be given to infants; D. it may be given to drach. sem. but that it may

worke the sooner, and not abide in the body, it may be acuated with diagridium, or the trochisci alhandal &c. and is given with the same from 8. gr. to 15. and more. So Hartm. in Croll. Senn. in Jnst. Tentzel. The water hence made, aq aluminis Fallop. helpeth inflammations, fistula's and malignant ulcers, cleansing and cicatri∣zing, especially in the french disease, and itch. The sweet talcose sublimate of S. Closs. doth pleasantly purge without vomiting, opens obstrustions, and cooleth, and is very safe in intermitting fevers. The lanugo perlata or silver flowers of Mercurie of S. Closs. D. are given to gr. 6. in the forme of pils, with a little of the extract of liquorish, and gently bring forth vitious humours, in the quotidian feaver, itch, and leprosie. Croll. The red sublimate mercurie not corrosive. arca∣num corallinum, purgeth chiefely by stoole, and is a great secret in the dropsie, french pocks, gout, itch, ulcers, cancers, &c. so the Mercuriall. So Hart. in Croll. Tentzel: The manna mercurii, or solar mercurius dulcis, is of admirable vertue in the falling sicknesse and venerious diseases, being thus brought to the highest degree of medicine. The corrected coralline arcanum of S. Closs. D. is given from gr. 5. to x. with a pan∣chymagogon. or gr. 8. with pils of washed aloes. C. Faus. The purging panacaea of mercurie. D. is given from gr. 5. to 8. The mercuriale oile of antimonie, or butter, Liquor gummosus, is used alone onely outwardly, in the gangreen and sphacelus, in which if the dead part be here∣with anointed, the putrefaction creepeth no further, and it's more fit for section: it also killeth the pestilentiall carbuncle, and fits it for other plaisters. Chirurgions often use it as a corrosive: and hereof is made the mercurius vitae, and minerall bezoardick. Croll. Senn. in I••st. Beg. Sala. Kest. Tentzel. Mercurie of life, pulvis angelicus or aquila alba, cleanseth by stoole and vomit, the whole body, especially the first re∣gion, from noxious humours. It's of excellent use in the plague, di∣seases of the head, french pocks, malignant ulcers, feavers, joynt ach, and dropsie, in which for the most part it works strongly without vo∣miting: the D. is gr. 2. to 4. or 2. 3. or 4. gr. may be steeped in a draught of wine, and so taken being filtrated, or take mercurius vitae scrup. 1. sem. of sack unc. 18. the D. is unc. 1. Note the purging vertue here∣of is never exhausted, being like the vitrum antimonii: as also that it's not to be used too much, it then causing a falling of the fundament. The Mercurie of life corrected purgeth very well by stool, and bring∣eth forth any impuritie: the D. is g. 4. to 6. Hartm. Senn. Tentzel. Agric. The cathartick purgeth onely downwards. The mineral lax∣ative. D. is given from g. 6. to 12. Querc. in pharm. Croll. Senn. Iust. Kest. Hartm, in pract. & in Croll. The mineral bezoardick, is a great

alexiterie, and very whole some medicine for provoking sweat••it is of great effect in all pestilentiall and venenate affections: the D. is g. 6. to 12. and more. The compound solar bezoardick doth migh∣tily provoke sweat, and is good therefore in the apoplexie, palsey, gout, joint ach, and trembling of the limbs: the D. is g. 4. to 8. The solar bezoardick of Croll. is good in the french pocks, plague, gout, dropsie, feaver, and obstructions of the spleen: the D. is g. 3. to 8. yet that of Hartm. in Croll. & Senn. in Inst. is more effectuall. The Lu∣nar bezoardick, helpeth the distempers of the head, especially the ••ry∣sipelas in the heads of women, the D. is g. 6. to 12. Scheun. in hydro∣mant. The martiall bezoardic••, is specificall in all fluxes of the belly, especially such as proceed from the liver. The Joviall bezo∣ardick, doth strongly provoke sweat, and is a polychreston against ob∣structions of the liver: the D. is g. 2. to 8. The Saturnine helpeth di∣seases of the spleen▪ the D. is g. 6. The spirit, or white diaphoretick oile of mercurie, serveth to cause sweat: the D. is g. 1. or 2. so Rhenan: chy∣motech. Hartm. in pract: The spirit or red oile thereof, as the other spirit, expelleth by sweat whatsoever is hurtfull to the body, and hardly overcome by other remedies, it cureth the pustuls and knots of the french pocks, easeth paine, exsiccates, and consolidates stinking and running ulcers: the D. is g. 1. or 2. &c. in treacle water, the spirit of pockwood, or some decoction, &c. The sweet diaphoretick oile, cureth malignant and cancrous ulcers, especially of the reines, and bladder, it may be used both inwardly and outwardly. Basil, The sweet oile called astrum, is diaphoretick, and a specifick remedie in the french disease: and of the same vertue, with the salt of mer∣curie, made of the residue. That also of Quere. in Tetr. is diapho∣retick. The saccharate oile and spirit of mercurie, is excellent good in ulcers of the bladder, or other affects proceeding from the French disease. the D. of the spirit is 3 or 4 drops. The sulphur or Tincture of mercurie, aquila caelestis, Parac. is excellent to cure the gout, falling sicknesse, and french pocks &c. the radix whereof it expelleth by sweat: the D. is g. 3 or 4. Basil. The oile of mercurie antimoniale, strengthens the braine, cureth the apoplexie, and may be used in stead of a panacaea. The liquour of mercurie, cureth wounds, and malig∣nant ulcers, being dropped into them. That of Ʋntz. helpeth the gout, and those that are infected with the french pocks. it cures the canker, fistula's, and all foule ulcers, putrid and inveterate being used inwardly or outwardly: the wh••te sweet oil hereof used inwardly hel∣peth exulcerated reines and the stone, and ulcers being applied. Hartm. in pract. The sweet diaphoretick oile, D. is given from g. 2. to 6.

So the joviall liquour and may be used both inwardly and outwardly. Thold. ex Basil. The salt of mercurie is a great and most effectuall ar∣canum in the extirpation of the french disease though radicated and inveterate, it clenseth the bloud, and there∣fore cureth all kinds of ulcers, with and without malignity, itch, and ringwormes: the D. is g. 1. 2. or 3. Caes. Waters running by mercurie, if drunk, are carried to the head, and fill the same, and thence fall to the gummes, hurting them and the limbs, as appeares by the oint∣ments of quicksilver. Isid. being taken in too great a q. it breaketh the intrals by its weight. Bras. given to infants it kils wormes. scrup. 1. facilitats delivery. it is very cold and moist and causeth congelation of the bloud; so Matth. it is to be kept in glazen vessels, it consu∣ming other matter, except glazed vessels. all things swimme therein, except gold which it attracts, and purifieth. it serveth to guild with being mixed with Gold, so laid on, and put to the fire, which disper∣ses the quicksilver; and it may after be seperated by aqua fortis. it looseneth the teeth. The water whitens the face. The sublimat in three houres, corrodes the body. Anon. Mercurius dulcis is excellent against the wormes: and it's used by some against the french disease also. Fren. the purgative and diaphoretick water of quick∣silver causeth vomit also. The fragrant oile helps the filth of the bloud, the D. is 4 drops. The outward sudorifick water used to the wrists causeth sweat.

S.

Sinople. Cinnabaris.

• P. It is to be had in Hungary, and Germany.
• M. Of Sulphur and quicksilver with a terrestriall matter.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Minium Diosc. & Cinnabari.

SInople. Schrod. K. as the naturall and artificiall. T. Diosc. it's of the nature of haematites. V. it's sometimes used inwardly, being mixed with antepileptick remedies: outwardly it cureth the french pocks, and itch, in suffiments &c. C. the best is that which is heavy, and therefore that of Hungary, being of a solar nature, and having the best sulphur and Mercurie. Hartm. The diaphoretick precipitate hereof, is an universall remedie, fit to be given in any desease, hel∣ping

the inward balsam to expell what is offensive, either by vomit, stoole, or sweating: the D. is g. 1. or. 2. Diosc. Cinnabaris is usefull against diseases of the eyes, as the haematite: but is more effectuall, being more astringent, and stopping the bloud; in cerots: it helpeth burnings with fire; and breakings out of pushes, being used in cerots, also Caes. Matth. it helps the fluxes of women, dysentery, and spit∣tings of bloud; it fastneth the teeth, and strengthneth the gummes; but this as also that of Diosc. agreeth rather to the lachrimose cinna∣baris, or sanguis draconis, than to the metallick. Aldrovand. minium both fossile and factitious, are seldome used in physick inwardly; yet some chymists use it in pils, in the old french disease, and the fume with wood of aloes, and myrrh. &c.